John Adams even mentioned playing with a bat and ball during his sporting years. Baseball, as we know it, had not yet been invented and children of his same age group were playing a modified version of the English game of Rounders.
"Morning, noon and nights (playing with) bat and ball."- President John Adams
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"Mornings, noon and nights, making and sailing boats, in swimming, in skating, flying kites and shooting, in marbles, ninepins, bat and ball, football, quoits, and wrestling." |
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Did you know that President John Adams played an early form of baseball called 'One Old Cat' when he was a child?
The above quote was taken from a Presidential letter from John Adams to a prominent businessman named Dr. Benjamin West and is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame collection.
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